Our Lives Matter S1E29: Understanding Worldviews

06/13/24 • 20 min

One easy way to see the Web of Human Behavior and Empathy Formula play out is by looking around at people you know. The people who relate to best are usually the people you feel you have the most in common with. But you can relate to anyone if you can figure out how their life is different from yours. What does that tell us about how people see the world? How do differences between your life and someone else’s affect their feelings about what happens in life and what they should do? ACT I Scene 1 [105...

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